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Toward understanding the dynamics of microbial communities in an estuarine system.
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- Together throughout the year: seasonal patterns of bacterial and eukaryotic microbial communities in a macrotidal estuary.Environmental microbiome · 2025Article
- Light-driven diel oscillations in microbial metabolism underpin estuarine biogeochemical resilience.ISME communications · 2025Article
- Temporal patterns of bacterial communities in the Billings Reservoir system.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Weekly Observations of Estuarine Microbial Assemblages during Summer in the Inner Part of Ariake Bay, Japan; Microbial Water-sediment Coupling in Turbid Shallow Waters.Microbes and environments · 2022Article
- Effects of Clinical Wastewater on the Bacterial Community Structure from Sewage to the Environment.Microorganisms · 2021Article
- Divergent Patterns of Bacterial Community Structure and Function in Response to Estuarine Output in the Middle of the Bohai Sea.Frontiers in microbiology · 2021Article
- Bacterial Operational Taxonomic Units Replace the Interactive Roles of Other Operational Taxonomic Units Under Strong Environmental Changes.Current genomics · 2020Article
- Distribution Patterns of Microeukaryotic Community Between Sediment and Water of the Yellow River Estuary.Current microbiology · 2020Article
- Distinct distribution patterns of ammonia-oxidizing archaea and bacteria in sediment and water column of the Yellow River estuary.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Spatial and Temporal Microbial Patterns in a Tropical Macrotidal Estuary Subject to Urbanization.Frontiers in microbiology · 2017Article
- Seasonal changes in microbial community composition in river water studied using 454-pyrosequencing.SpringerPlus · 2016Article
- A Comparison of Microbial Water Quality and Diversity for Ballast and Tropical Harbor Waters.PloS one · 2015Article
- Species sorting during biofilm assembly by artificial substrates deployed in a cold seep system.Scientific reports · 2014Article
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Abstract
Community assembly theories such as species sorting theory provide a framework for understanding the structures and dynamics of local communities. The effect of theoretical mechanisms can vary with the scales of observation and effects of specific environmental factors. Based on 16S rRNA gene tag pyrosequencing, different structures and temporal succession patterns were discovered between the surface sediments and bottom water microbial communities in the Pearl River Estuary (PRE). The microbial communities in the surface sediment samples were more diverse than those in the bottom water samples, and several genera were specific for the water or sediment communities. Moreover, water temperature was identified as the main variable driving community dynamics and the microbial communities in the sediment showed a greater temporal change. We speculate that nutrient-based species sorting and bacterial plasticity to the temperature contribute to the variations observed between sediment and water communities in the PRE. This study provides a more comprehensive understanding of the microbial community structures in a highly dynamic estuarine system and sheds light on the applicability of ecological theoretical mechanisms.
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